Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous